Objective: Over active bladder (OAB) is a situation characterized by urgency which nega- tively affects quality of life. Associations have been shown between situations like age, obesity, parity, DM and hyperlipidemia with OAB. In this study, patients attending a family practice clinic without urologic symptoms had demographic and labora- tory data researched for correlation with OAB.
Material and Methods: A total of 100 female patients attending a family practice clinic had de- mographic features like age, height, weight, BMI, waist/hip ratio, and waist/height ratio and labo- ratory values like blood glucose, cholesterol, TG, hemoglobin, TSH, vitamin D3 and vitamin B12 compared for their effect on the OAB-V8 survey.
Results: The OAB-V8 symptom score of pa- tients was identified to have correlations with age, weight, BMI, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio, waist-height ratio and total cholesterol levels. El- evated total cholesterol, presence of more than one chronic disease, hemoglobin above 12 and central-type obesity were identified to increase OAB-V8 symptom score.
Conclusion: OAB is a multifactorial disease and age, central-type obesity and more than one chronic disease may affect OAB symptoms.
Keywords: Overactive bladder, Obesity, Age, OAB-V8 questionare, Diabetes Mellitus, Hyper- lipidemi.
Abstract
Objective: Over active bladder (OAB) is a situation characterized by urgency which nega- tively affects quality of life. Associations have been shown between situations like age, obesity, parity, DM and hyperlipidemia with OAB. In this study, patients attending a family practice clinic without urologic symptoms had demographic and labora- tory data researched for correlation with OAB.
Material and Methods: A total of 100 female patients attending a family practice clinic had de- mographic features like age, height, weight, BMI, waist/hip ratio, and waist/height ratio and labo- ratory values like blood glucose, cholesterol, TG, hemoglobin, TSH, vitamin D3 and vitamin B12 compared for their effect on the OAB-V8 survey.
Results: The OAB-V8 symptom score of pa- tients was identified to have correlations with age, weight, BMI, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio, waist-height ratio and total cholesterol levels. El- evated total cholesterol, presence of more than one chronic disease, hemoglobin above 12 and central-type obesity were identified to increase OAB-V8 symptom score.
Conclusion: OAB is a multifactorial disease and age, central-type obesity and more than one chronic disease may affect OAB symptoms.
Keywords: Overactive bladder, Obesity, Age, OAB-V8 questionare, Diabetes Mellitus, Hyper- lipidemi.